Today I realized that my normal process of removing dents from an overhauled or repadded instrument after doing all other work on it is foolish. Dent work should come immediately after cleaning. Normally I do things like realign posts and raise dents that will affect the function of the instrument immediately after cleaning, then do all the other work (installing pads/stropping slides/porting pistons), and only then do I do cosmetic dentwork. But dentwork is easier to do when the instrument is disassembled, so it makes no sense to do it after putting things together.
I should come up with a tagline for these posts.
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